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hip-41515
Variable starIts story
In modest Pyxis, the Navigator's Compass, shines a blue star at 929 light-years. Its light departed around the year 1097, while the First Crusade was marching toward Antioch and all of Europe was reorganizing its trade routes. It is a class B variable, hot and luminous, with brightness changes that betray instabilities in its outer layers. A small constellation with a very distant pulsing beacon.
- Constellation
- Pyxis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 929.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 126.998° · Dec -35.114°
- Catalogue
- HIP 41515 · HD 71801
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